Monday 20 April 2009

Toni Braxton - Vocal Profile/ Range



Vocal Type: contralto
Whistle Register: No
Vocal Range:3 Octaves. Bb2- Bb5 (approx)
Longest Note: 7 seconds - "Maybe"
Vocal Pluses: Dark and heavy voice throughout the low and belted notes. Is capable of lifting the weight and colour of her voice with her middle range which the has an airier quality. Her head voice is nice with a smooth, rich sound that retains a weight to it.
Vocal Negatives: Heavy weight of the voice doesn't allow or suit vocal runs. Belted notes sound less impressive than that of her contemporaries and tends to sound at unease with her voice the higher she sings.



23 comments:

  1. Lots of very good reading here, thank you! I was researching on yahoo when I identified your article, I’m going to add your feed to Google Reader, I look forward to more from you.

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  2. Toni Braxton is concidered a Baritone since her lowest note is B2. But since she is a female, she is considered a Contralto.

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  3. A gal cant be a baritone no matter how deep she sounds.....plz write on males also plz nd countertenors....

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  4. most baritones cat get past the fourth octave. she would be more equivalent to a tenor. 

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  5. Concordo plenamente com vc Joshua !!

    Falou tudo !

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  6. Jason Nicoson1 May 2012 at 05:36

     Her first album is legendary.

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  7. Toni's lowest note is a F#2 in a octave unison. @ around 0:28
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXK7rsgbi48

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  8. Her low notes are heavenly, husky and have a dark quality I absolutely LOVE her!!

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  9. She's actually classically trained too--which makes me feel comfortable in saying she's a dramatic contralto.

    But ignoring vocal-fach BS, she has a hella sexy voice. All that damn darkness and molasses-thick legato is wonderful.

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  10. I love me some Toni Braxton. I like deep singing voice women.

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  11. Toni Braxton profile need a revamp because she is a great singer.

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  12. Please update Toni profile. She is an awesome singer!!!

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  13. I'm not trying to bring you down or anything but you know after her next album she's going to singing? Again I'm not trying to bring you down and she is a really great singer.

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  14. Now I've heard many musically-trained people and voice experts say Toni's a low lyric mezzo because her higher range loses (or can easily lose) the manly sound that true contraltos like Cher and Annie Lennox have throughout their whole range. What do others think? I mean when she sings in falsetto and head voice she definitely sounds more feminine and the same the higher she belts, you can't really mistake her for a man, whereas with full contraltos you can.

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  15. Women aren't called baritones though. They're called contraltos. :)

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  16. PLEASE update her profile!!!! She is GREAT!!!!

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  17. You came back? Yassssss!

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  18. And second... lol...

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  19. Even in her midlow register I find her voice really femenine. Etta James, Tina Turner and Cher for example have more of a manly voice than her. Even Miley Cyrus have more of a manly voice than Toni Braxton.

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  20. She is a Dramatic Contralto to be specific.

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  21. Toni Braxton is NOT a "Dramatic Contralto". The "Dramatic Contralto" sub-fach is exceedingly rare and there hasn't been a voice of such magnitude to grace the Operatic world for more than a century so how on earth do you justify your logic of a mere 'R&B/Pop' singer being a "Dramatic Contralto"?


    Toni is, in fact, a 'Full- Lyric Mezzo Soprano' albeit with a low tessitura and a tonal quality that is, somewhat, dark & cavernous (especially within the lower regions) for which her voice is able to permeate and, at times, sit within the contralto tessitura with ease but that doesn't make her a Contralto. Her voice brightens considerably as she ascend the scales of her mid- register and her timbre, overall, is formidably feminine.

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  22. She and her sister Tamar darken their lower registers quite a bit anyways... I wanna hear one of these low mezzos learn how to mix their lower register with a bit of vocal fry to see how low in the second octave they can project. Also, what do you think about Jazmine's use of her lower register here? Some parts, she stoops down so low, its inaudible.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89uvHRoRoRk

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  23. Now, Jazmine Sullivan is a 'Lower set- Mezzo Soprano' whose voice carries the true cavernous quality of a Contralto (particularly within her lower register) much stronger than Toni's ever did. Whereas Toni would lose solidity below D3, Jazmine is able to carry and maintain resonance as low as an astonishing A2 which, for a female, is almighty. Fundamentally, her timbre withholds the tonality of a 'Leggero Tenor'.


    Here is an example of a Leggero Tenor - Terrell Carter, singing a fantastic rendition of 'In Love With Another Man'. He is, most definitely, her male equivalent and the closest example of what Jazmine would sound like if she were a Man. The vocal similarities are truly uncanny.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lT3oo-raOw

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